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Field notes on the systems we build — what tends to break, and what makes infrastructure actually get used.
Introducing Semantify
We're a scholarly infrastructure consultancy founded by Sara El-Gebali and Xiaoli Chen — two practitioners who've spent their careers inside the systems we now help others build.
Read more →June 2026Metadata Debt: The Hidden Cost of Quick Fixes
Every free-text field, every uncrosswalked schema, every identifier that was minted but never linked to anything — that's metadata debt, and it compounds.
Read more →July 2026Adoption Is Not Deployment
You can deploy a PID system, write a data management plan, and build a knowledge graph — and still fail if nobody uses them. Here's why adoption is a design problem.
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